Chapter 5 Gambling

In the morning, the huge skate park was deserted.

Carrying a schoolbag, Yang Yang skillfully flipped the ball, entered from the residential area on the east side, and went straight to the center of the park along the winding path.

After two weeks of arduous and tedious basic training, his pitching skills have improved a lot. Even bumping the ball doesn't affect his walking speed at all, and he soon arrived at the core of the park.

As the name suggests, there is a skateboarding area in the core area of ​​the skate park. I heard that there used to be many young skateboard enthusiasts gathering every night, which was very lively. Those abandoned skateboard facilities are still a reminder.

Yang Yang's ball training can finally come to an end temporarily, but the next special training set by Lao Bing needs a wall.

The city of Almere is very big, but it is really not easy to find a wall that can be used for training. In the end, Yang Yang finally found a long-lost and graffiti-covered wall in the skate park. waste wall.

The location of the skateboard park is very good. To the north is Yangyang's school Bakken Academy, not far to the east is the residential area where my uncle Shen Ming's family lives, to the west is the river, and to the south is the famous Dominican Garden Villa area, which is Al The most upscale residential complex in Mailer just completed last year.

Further south of the villa area is the Almere Auto City, which is the largest and most professional car sales and maintenance center in the south of Amsterdam. Uncle Shen Ming's Chinese restaurant is just north of the Auto City.

The skate park is very big, and the skate area has been abandoned for a long time. Even the morning exercisers who get up early rarely pass here, so Yang Yang doesn’t have to worry about affecting others or being disturbed when he comes to train here.

After putting down his schoolbag, Yang Yang bounced the ball to the wall and stopped three meters away from the wall.

His first training is to kick the ball against the wall in this position, wait for the ball to bounce back, and then kick it back again. The requirement is to touch the ball with one foot, and the intensity of each touch must be controlled and kept as equal as possible.

Five hundred strokes with the right foot, and another five hundred strokes with the left foot.

In the boring training against the wall, Yang Yang heard the thumping sound in his ears, but his body was feeling the similarities and differences of every kick, and the feedback every time the ball bounced back from the wall.

System Laobing also kept correcting his actions beside his ears and giving suggestions for improvement.

After all the way to warm up the ball, after a thousand passes, Yang Yang was panting and sweating, but this was just the beginning.

Stepping back to five meters away from the wall, Yang Yang started the second exercise, hitting the wall with the ball.

There are four parts of the inner instep and the instep of the left and right feet. Each part takes five minutes, exactly twenty minutes.

Although Yang Yang has been training the ball for two weeks, it is still very different to hit the ball against the wall, especially after passing through the reaction force of the wall, he has high requirements for Yang Yang's first touch of the ball.

Old Bing's requirements are still the same. There are four parts in total, and each part is considered qualified by hitting the ball for 500 consecutive times.

Although it is some of the most basic training, Lao Bing has extremely high requirements on Yang Yang. If there is a slight mistake, he will immediately propose and ask for correction. In addition, the training itself requires a high degree of concentration, and the intensity is not small. , Unconsciously, Yang Yang was already sweating profusely.

He was focused on training and didn't notice it at all. At some point, on the park path not far behind him, a middle-aged man and woman who were exercising in the morning stopped and looked at him curiously.

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"What's the matter?" Truss asked his boyfriend curiously.

"It's nothing, just curious." The middle-aged Holland replied indifferently.

Following his boyfriend's line of sight, Truss looked at the teenager who was training against the wall in the skateboarding area in the distance, "Is it weird?"

"Huh?" The middle-aged Holland obviously didn't understand.

"I mean, is it weird to train against a wall?" Truss repeated his question.

"No, it's not surprising, a lot of people do it, like Bergkamp."

Due to her boyfriend's professional relationship, Truss is also quite involved in football. In addition, her family and friends are all related to professional football. Naturally, she is familiar with the stars, not to mention the famous Bogkan in Arsenal. General.

"He's like Bergkamp?" Truss asked tentatively.

With her boyfriend's eyesight, I'm afraid this is the only way to explain why he stopped to watch it during the morning exercise and running.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged Holland was obviously taken aback when he heard it.

"He?" The middle-aged Holland shook his head, "It's far from Bergkamp."

"Is it bad?"

"He should be about ten meters away from the wall now. This is the most commonly used passing distance in professional leagues. It is also something that all professional players must master and possess, and it must be a touch of the ball."

"But look..." The middle-aged Holland pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area, "He used two feet, and the first kick often failed to stop the ball. It can be seen that this person's basic skills are very bad, and he can even train by himself. In this way, when it comes to the game, it will be even worse, and at his current level, he can't even play in the amateur league."

Trus rolled his eyes helplessly, his boyfriend has always been strict with football, and he speaks directly, but his eyes are very vicious. If he said that, he must not be wrong.

"Looking at his age of sixteen or seventeen, is it that serious?"

"This is the most basic thing. You must master it at the age of twelve. Spain pays more attention to this aspect of training than we do, especially..."

Halfway through the sentence, the middle-aged Holland suddenly turned gloomy, as if his weakness had been touched.

Truss also noticed.

Since that incident happened half a year ago, he began to become depressed. Although everyone knew that it was not his fault, he still couldn't come out.

Seeing my boyfriend staying at home all day is not an option. A friend just bought a house in the Dominican garden villa area in Almere, and there is the largest golf course around Amsterdam nearby, so at the suggestion of Truss, I love golf. Second only to football, he decided to stay in Almere temporarily to avoid the disturbance outside.

I just didn't expect that after two days in Almere, my boyfriend was attracted by this strange teenager this morning.

"Since you think he's bad, why are you curious?" Truss immediately changed the subject.

The middle-aged Holland's mouth twitched slightly, looking at Yang Yang who was sweating from training from a distance, as if he was muttering to himself: "I'm curious, how long can he hold on to this kind of boring and useless work?"

"How do you know it's useless?"

"At his age, doing this kind of basic training is extremely boring and boring. It's half the effort. At the beginning, he was greedy for freshness and he could persevere, but after a long time, when he began to realize that everything he had done was in vain, He will retreat when faced with difficulties, is this not useless or what is it?"

Truss heard her boyfriend's deep meaning from his words. He was talking about this young man, but why wasn't it his own portrayal?

"I don't think so. I think it's useful or not. You have to try it before you know."

"you are too naive."

"You're just too pessimistic, why don't we bet?" Trus looked at her boyfriend provocatively. She felt that she should find something for him to do to save him from thinking wildly.

"Bet?" Middle-aged Holland pointed to Yang Yang in the skateboard area, "He?"

"Yes, I think he can hold on."

"No, Truss Opamel, I can tell you with great certainty that you are sure to lose, and he won't last for a month." The middle-aged Holland said with great confidence.

He has seen and experienced too many people and things like this.

"Then let's bet." Truss spread his hands.

"Okay, it's a deal."

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Yang Yang didn't know that he had become someone else's gamble, he just focused on special training.

After practising passing the ball to the wall at 10 meters, he retreated to 15 meters, 20 meters, and finally some other training items, but they were all the most basic.

With his current basic skills, he should start from the most basic things.

In Laobing's words, the ball is the most basic, but it is not the purpose. With the gradual improvement of the ball feel, the ball training will gradually decrease, and it will be replaced by other trainings with more practical application value.

Yang Yang agrees with this.

After finishing the morning training, Yang Yang put on his schoolbag again, and walked north while kicking the ball, and soon left the skate park.

Yang Yang's dipping seems to be random, but if you pay attention carefully, it is not difficult to find that each of his dipping has the same rhythm and intensity as possible. Make him look like he has a certain rhythm.

Bakken Academy is a one-stop institution from kindergarten to high school, and it is also a famous private school in Almere.

From two weeks ago, Yang Yang entered the school with a ball, it has become an anecdote of Bakken Academy, but more of it is ridicule and sarcasm.

Everyone knows that Yang Yang is good at reading, but playing football is a mess.

The fact that John Repp persuaded Yang Yang to quit many times has long been widely known by Yang Yang's teammates.

However, Yang Yang did not respond in the slightest, and still went his own way.

There is only one way to change the outside world's view of him, and that is to pass the semester assessment and stay in Almere.

"This bastard really doesn't give up!"

At the gate of the school, Henk Dimmel watched Yang Yang walk into the campus with a ball, his eyes flashed with anger.

In the past two weeks of training, Yang Yang's performance in the team has been getting better and better, especially in the ring game. Although it is still the worst performance in the team, it is difficult for everyone to play him like before. .

But he improved, but Henk Dimel began to have bad luck, and began to enter the circle frequently to grab the ball, and this was all thanks to Yang Yang, and even several times, Dimel couldn't help but want to beat him. meal.

"I heard news that he has performed well in training recently. The coaching staff intends to arrange him to enter the squad for the game against Omnibus on Saturday." Said an Almere youth academy player next to him.

"What?" Henk Dimmel was a little stunned.

"Nick was injured, and I heard the coach wanted him to play in the defensive position."

Almere has been established for less than seven years, and neither the youth training echelon nor the first team is perfect, so the youth team cooperates with the private school Bakken Academy. Players in the 16th and 17th age groups represent Bakken Academy. Participate in the Saturday Interscholastic League in Amsterdam South.

Omnibus is also Almere's team. It cooperates with a fourth-level amateur team in the city for youth training. The strength is not weak, but it is a tough bone.

Henk Dimel narrowed his eyes. He is the captain of the youth team and the captain of the school team, but he has not received a notification yet.

"Then he should start praying for himself."

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